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bourbon

Southern Comfort is delicious and sweet. It's a good change of pace if you're a new bourbon drinker. It has a hint of flavors from back when prohibition and moonshine limited good french brandy imports. So, you'll pick up a little cherry or amaretto, and about half the spice of say a spiced rum.

You'll hear alot of snickers about it because it's known to be sweet, but do what you want, seriously! It's an old recipe and a southern tradition. The new lime flavor is good, especially if you're an amaretto sour fan. It's good with Coke.

My only issue with southern comfort is the sugar. It gets cloying if you're going to drink it all night, especially if Coke is your mixer.

>>4052253
Southern Comfort is not bourbon, it's a liqueur

>>4052253
Maker's Mark is a good one to start with, then maybe Elijah Craig, Evan Williams Single Barrel or Elmer T. Lee depending on availability. Bulleit Bourbon is overrated, but they bottle a good Rye.

>>4052313
Also, Jason Pyle has a pretty good blog for tasting notes if you wanna get some info before you buy.

http://sourmashmanifesto.com/

>>4052261
>southern comfort
>using a mixer

>>4052306
It is Bourbon. It also has peach flavoring in it.
OP what is the tequlia that looks like a dick

>>4052253
I really enjoy Basil Haydens, 7 or 8 year bourbon. It's like $30.

>no booker's

>>4052253
>that chart
>putting Honey Jack as swill

I'm almost through a bottle of Evan Williams single barrel. Picked it up for $27. Well worth the price if you ask.

my preferred drinks never seem to make it onto these lists. i'd call myself a hipster, except that they're available at the fukken grocery store.

>>4052658

This. Also, why no rum?

>>4052617

>"Southern Comfort is an American liqueur made from neutral spirits with fruit, spice and whiskey flavorings.[1] The brand was originally created by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in New Orleans in 1874,[2] and is now owned by the Brown-Forman Corporation. Although the original product contained whiskey, the current formula for Southern Comfort only contains whiskey-tasting flavoring rather than actual whiskey (except for the premium version called "Special Reserve").[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort

tl;dr: SoCo is the Coca-Cola of booze.

>>4052822
its too sweet for my taste. I think jack daniels is the cocoacola of booze

>>4052829
maybe we are speaking two different languages. they just may mean its sweet like a soda

Four roses small batch. Middle of the road on price, ridiculously delicious.

>>4052829
>>4052831

I meant that they are similar in how they are advertised (though Jack Daniels probably markets more), but more importantly in how they are made.

They both start with a neutral base (spirits or carbonated water) and then they add in flavoring, coloring, and sugar (probably high fructose corn syrup) to make the finished product.

>>4052680
honey jack isn't even on there. get your eyes checked before you get wrecked

>>4052617
No it isn't.

Anyone ever try Old Grandad bourbon?

How is it?

>>4052617
Asombroso

Wheres my rare breed?

>>4053053
It's a lower-middle-tier bourbon, pretty heavy on the sour taste if I recall.

If you want a great bourbon that doesn't cost much, I highly recommend W. L. Weller if you can find it. It's cheap everywhere I've seen it, but on the OP's chart I'd put it right above Knob Creek.

>>4053133
snifter is looking kinda full there, planning a hard night of drinking?

Huh, the chart is better than I expected.

wild turkey 101 do it faggot

>>4053293

>>4052253
soco is good for about the first couple glasses then it gets way too sweet and sickening

the best bourbon in that price range is obviously makers hands down